Putin just isn’t as powerful as some people must believe. The Soviet Union and the Red Army are no more. Russia is just what the neocons use to hold your attention so you won’t notice the other horrid things they are doing.
This fear of a weakened Russia takes all eyes off of the real foreign enemy China, who actually has been purchasing the US.
The most dangerous enemy is already here in Washington DC. We sent people off to war to keep from happening in the US what our own leaders are doing right now to the United States.
The Russian economy is smaller than Canada and barely ahead of Australia